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New Telescope Hunts for Earth Sized Planets

TENxOXR writes "The French-led Corot mission has taken off from Kazakhstan on a quest to find planets outside our Solar System. The space telescope will monitor about 120,000 stars for tiny dips in brightness that result from planets passing across their faces. The multinational mission will also study the stars directly to uncover more about their interior behavior."

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  1. Re:Obligatory surrender joke... by sensi_fr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nothing oblige you to be pitifully as ignorant as xenophobe.
    FYI, the french loss three time more soldiers than the USA while fighting the germans in the past century, while the USA were three time more populated at that time.
    Oh, and the whole Europe were pwned by the Nazis, no doubt that yours would have been too if it was in this area at that time...
    In short keep your pathetic "jokes" for your imaginary friends from your cave.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualtie s
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualti es

  2. Re:Obligatory surrender joke... by E++99 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Oh, and the whole Europe were pwned by the Nazis, no doubt that yours would have been too if it was in this area at that time...


    We were in the area at the time... liberating your miserable ungreatful butts. Well at least you're spreading the good will by helping to liberate and Iraq. Oh, wait, you're not. You first argued for appeasing Saddam, and now that the Iraqis are going to hang Saddam, you're arguing for appeasing Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda, meanwhile, is not even ASKING for appeasement, like Hitler did. They're just trying to incite large-scale war at any price. In short, I think the jokes are entirely appropriate.
  3. Re:No point in the search by Eunuchswear · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because he, unlike you, had a sense of humour.

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    Watch this Heartland Institute video